Grand History of Navarre

Decorated with almost 1,000 miniatures but irrevocably exposed to decay: one of the most beautiful picture Bibles of the Middle Ages, created for the King of Navarre

A medieval mixture of Roman law and common law as an early evidence of the Basque vernacular: one of the first constitutions in Europe and the basis for the heyday of the Kingdom of Navarre

The oldest reference to the "language of the Navarros": one of the most important documents on the history of the Basque language, commissioned by King Sancho VI of Navarre

The history textbook of the young Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: one of the most popular historical works of the 17th and 18th centuries with 156 small portraits and 328 copperplate engravings by Matthäus Merian the Elder

With no less than 343 illustrations from the hand of Emperor Maximilian's court poet: a late and unprinted work of universal history translated by Thomas Murner, which was preserved only in a single manuscript

Genealogy, register of coats of arms and album amicorum or “friendship book” in one: artfully decorated princely copperplate engravings full of authentic insights into everyday life in Germany at the turn of the 17th century